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My Own Private Idaho 1991
Quintessential queer cinema, if you ask me

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Queen of the Damned
i CANNOT express how much more lovable my friends are to me at their most annoying. i'd rather hear the same story 3 times than not at all. i'd rather read a 22 message text rant about something totally inconsequential than not hear from you all day. i'd rather you tag me in the stupidest post i've ever seen than not know that it made you think of a conversation we had a month ago. BE ANNOYING AT ME. I LOVE YOU
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May we never lose sight of one thing: the "canker in the heart" of Anne Riceโs collected works is a motherโs grief. From that grief flowed a wellspring of macabre beauty, as red and as thorny as any rose. Honor her.
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It's interesting to me that in one of Anne's first drafts for the 1994 iwtv movie there's lots of TVL intertwined with it. I found it especially neat that the person who gives Lestat the wolf-killer cloak is called Antoine:
He doesn't come up again in the screenplay, but it's SO cool how later in the book series Antoine is a character that parallels Nicki!
Daniel was also called David in this.. I wonder when she retconned that?

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[...] I can do the things now that you used to do. I could fight those wolves on my own..." Her voice trailed off as she was lost in her thoughts. "The important thing," she said after a long moment, "is that we can go wherever we wish now, Lestat. We're free."
anne rice, the vampire lestat
i mean, at this point these are basically ocs, including lestat. arguably he's even more mischaracterised than he already was. in the novels, the emotional structure of the relationship is completely different. what produces lestat's fixation on gabrielle is her radical emotional detachment, combined, i would argue, with strong textual AND subtextual suggestions of abuse from a third party--the marquis. despite everything, she is still the one person he experiences as loving him, and the text repeatedly implies that she is trapped within the same system that is damaging him. when lestat says he loses her behind many doors, the image evokes both emotional withdrawal and material confinement. lestat himself is imprisoned and beaten by his father. gabrielle is confined by an aristocratic marriage whose primary function is dynastic reproduction. anne rice never states it outright, but the novel is haunted by the possibility that lestat and his brothers are the products of marital rape. what makes lestat identify so strongly with gabrielle is that he recognises in her another victim of the same structure that has shaped his own life. the forms of violence are different, but the novel persistently places them in relation to one another. they come to see themselves almost as extensions of one another because each recognises in the other the marks of a shared captivity.
the show seems to be gesturing towards some version of this dynamic but fails to articulate it. gabrielle pursuing lestat sexually, or appearing to demand sex was simply not part of their relationship in the books. anne rice's treatment of incest is far stranger and more complex than that. in a recognisably female gothic mode, the locus of injury is displaced away from the mother-son relationship itself and located instead in the patriarchal structures that organise both their lives. more specifically, the aristocratic structures that reduce gabrielle to a wife and mother and lestat to an heir and son. neither functions primarily as the other's victimiser.
which is why i think what you're describing is much closer to the logic of the "viaticum for the marquise" scene. the traditional viaticum prepares someone for death; lestat's intervention interrupts that process. by making gabrielle a vampire, he is not simply saving her life but severing her from the identities that have defined and imprisoned her. the marquise and the wife die. in an important sense, the mother dies as well. the scene is incestuous in the same way much of anne rice's vampire symbolism is incestuous. blood functions as the closest equivalent to sexual consummation in the chronicles, and the novel is perfectly aware of the implications. but the point is not that a hidden sexual desire is finally being fulfilled. the point is that the social identities which made them mother and son are themselves being dismantled. lestat is quite literally snatching gabrielle away from the patriarchal bonds that made her a mother in the first place.
that is what makes the relationship so difficult and so unusual. once those bonds have been broken, it is largely lestat who attempts to establish a connection with gabrielle outside the terms that previously governed their lives, and for perhaps the first time she does not entirely withdraw from him. but she has never been permitted to inhabit motherhood except through violence. her children are inseparable from the conditions under which they were conceived. what lestat seeks from her is a form of recognition and intimacy that neither of them has been able to access before. gabrielle is willing to grant it, yet the only available language for that intimacy remains the language of mother and son. what follows is not the fulfilment of a hidden desire but the collapse of a kinship structure that never functioned properly in the first place.
the discomfort of those scenes comes from that contradiction. they are no longer mother and son in any ordinary sense, yet they cannot entirely cease to be mother and son either. anne rice leaves them suspended there. reducing the relationship to gabrielle aggressively pursuing lestat sexually flattens something far more complex and interesting. it replaces a story about damaged kinship + coercive motherhood, and the aftermath of a shared captivity with a far more familiar narrative that the novels were never especially interested in telling.
* i removed all talk of grooming because I just found out that he's 30 in the wolf scene so it doesn't apply.
Beautifully put op :)
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A producer should've been gentle parenting Rolin.
Is that three books? Wow, that's so many! I love that you love your books, but let's do one at a time, okay?
It's okay... here, I'm going to put Queen of the Damned and Tale of the Body Thief right here! And after we take our nap, our mind will feel better, and our imagination will be so big! And we can make a list of what we learned in The Vampire Lestat!
And when The Vampire Lestat is ALL DONE ๐ then we will talk about starting Queen of the Damned! Does that sound fun?
Nooooo, we can't just say memory is a monster again. Noooooo, we can't just say the art of recollection when we forget or when we get confused about what we did or didn't read or write down. It's okay to be confused, but what isn't ok, Rolin? That's right. Lying! Just lying to the audience is cheap and disrespectful! So let's not rush and tell lies where we should've instead been so so patient.
Rolin, if you're gonna treat the Gabrielle and Nicki dolls like that, I'm gonna put them up. That's not respectful. That's not nice. That's not on theme. Do we wanna take a break until we feel better about theme? Yeah, I think that's for the best. Let's get you down for your nap and I'll see if I can fix Gabrielle and Nicki while you have nice, pretty Lestat dreams.
This may be my favorite #tvlcritical so far
My poor guy just wants to make some friends ๐ญ
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What if they don't make Marius a pedophile in AMC.
Unrelated I can already see 35-60 year old book purists (I'm 40 BTW) shitting on AMC for not making him elegant and godlike enough and I'm like
HE WAS AWKWARD AND WEIRD AND NERDY IN THE BOOK
HE CUT HIS HAIR AS SOON AS HE FELT HE NO LONGER NEEDED TO IMPRESS TWINKS
He's a pedophile because he's pathetic
AKASHA CRUSHED HIM BECAUSE SHE WATCHED HIM BE MID FOR TWO MILLENIA
If you didn't get that from the book already idk what to tell you
AND IT'S STILL OK TO BE ENTERTAINED BY HIM AS A CHARACTER
You don't have to agree with everything he does to be entertained
And it we're entertained by murder in general and Louis paying a waitress to be Claudia and whatever trauma has ever been inflicted on Armand by anyone...
... Then we can deal with Marius being pathetic. โค๏ธ
My personal theory is Marius will indeed be a pedophile, but in more of a malicious, textbook villain sort of way and not in the pathetic, lonely vampire who preys on broken children because they can be easily groomed into his ideal 'lover' and temporarily quell his pain sort of way (which is arguably FAR more disturbing and fucked up than the former).
After they fucked up Gabriella I have zero faith in their adaptation of new characters. They seem to A) misread them entirely or B) not care cuz they wanna write their own thing
Imagine what this season could have been had they just worked with the books instead of writing the most derivative sex drugs rock and roll rockstat fanfic. If we had to include qotd in this season then why not take from the actual structure of the pre-concert chapters from qotd. Imagine if the bulk of this season was an actual Molloy interview on the contents of tvl with snippets of all the characters from qotd circling around the concert. If the point of all this random bullshit they're calling a plot is to build to the events of qotd, why not actually use the actual textual stuff that builds to qotd??
The way some of s1-2's greatest moments had very little to no basis in the books (armand death monologue, the whole pilot, etc), to now where I'm just screaming at the screen constantly for them to just adapt the damn book, please just use the book, stop making up random bullshit.
IWTV is a good adaptation, TVL is not: An Analysis
Strap in folks because this is a long one (TW: sexual abuse, incest)
Introduction:
I have always praised IWTV season 1 and 2 for being what an adaptation should be. It didn't tell us the exact same story we know and love, but it took the soul of that story and imbued it into new, unique ideas. The plot wasn't the same, but it was recognizable. The characters weren't the same, but they were recognizable. Not only that, but there was this intrinsic understanding of the source material that allowed for many of the themes in the books to be expanded upon in insightful ways. For example, one of the best changes they have ever made was making Louis a black man; Vampirism had always been, at least in part, about being the 'other'- outcasted, demeaned by society because of your traumas or identities. Tying race into that is BRILLIANT, and adds a whole new layer to the themes of the books that so many people took comfort in and related to. TVL, however, has shown none of the integrity the first two seasons had (so far), and- I would dare to say- is intentionally straying away from the source material, thus isolating book fans in favor for a more popular show.
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--- Lestat, Blood Communion
if marius doesnโt have his luscious long rapunzel blond locks we ride at dawn. donโt give us baldius or recedinghairlineius i beg
What the hell is that thing
just some guy
The fact that THIS was Christopher Heyerdahl in Twilight drives me insane cuz dye the hair blond and it looks more like Marius than Marius does in the show